BAY OF BENGAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bay of Bengal mean? 

• BAY OF BENGAL (noun)
  The noun BAY OF BENGAL has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India

  Familiarity information: BAY OF BENGAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAY OF BENGAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)

Meronyms (parts of "Bay of Bengal"):

Andaman Sea (part of the Bay of Bengal to the west of the Malay Peninsula)

Holonyms ("Bay of Bengal" is a part of...):

Indian Ocean (the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south)